Page 16 - The Basic Conflict between Christianity and Communism

“Workers of the world, unite!” The very necessity to foment trouble shows that unrest

that flames forth in revolution is NOT spontaneous with the working classes, but the
result of an ideological LIE foisted upon them from without.

Moreover, the movement is not a popular movement at all. It does not start with the

masses and move up, but with the academic theorists from among the “Bourgeois”.
Marxist teachings have been the plaything of dilettante intellectuals, and, strangest of
all, have been advocated by many of the rich, who would HAVE to know that if the
ideology prevailed, they would be murdered or impoverished or both. This may have

two explanations: (1) that some of the rich have a guilt-complex in the face of Marxist
charges that they have climbed to wealth over the bodies of the poor , and talk
revolution as a kind of escape-mechanism to appease a troubled conscience, always
hoping that it will not come to pass in their day! (2) They have an inward fear that the

ideology may one day prevail, so they want to get in on the ground floor and be given
special consideration when it does come.

Marx and Engels both recognized that their theory seemed to have an appeal to

intellectuals and that its spread had been from the top down, rather than from the
bottom up.

The Christian philosophy is at variance with all this at every point. It insists that

SIN is the cause of all human trouble and that it is in every member of the race,
without respect to class, color or country. It recognizes that though sin is in everyone
there are still different degrees in its effects, that leaves some in the category of the
wise and some in the category of the foolish. There are some that are energetic and

some that are lazy, some that have executive ability and some that have not, and some
that have inventive genius and some that are slow-witted. Some (though still sinful in
the sight of God) have strong moral consciousness and courage and some are
complete moral reprobates and many stages between.

These inequalities, that are the most obvious fact about human nature, Marx the
atheist with a brilliant mind run amuck, fails to take account of. He proceeds from the
completely false premise that class distinctions with their accompanying economic

disparity, cause evil and suffering, instead of the true premise that sin and evil in the
heart are the cause of classes.

He, therefore, starts out to right human society and destroy classes (which he deems

to be the cause of all the trouble) by a wholesale process of hatred, lies, murder and

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